- Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. A champion of Sun's 24-year old strategy to share, McNealy is always fighting for openness and choice: "Without choice, you have no innovation.
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- James Gosling
James Gosling is a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems ,and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor, and a text editor called "Emacs" for Unix systems. At Sun, his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system.
- Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
- Tim Bray
Tim Bray (full name: Timothy William Bray) is a software developer, writer, major contributor to the XML and Atom web standards, and an entrepreneur (he co-founded Open Text Corporation and Antarctica Systems). Currently, Tim is the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems and resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Poona) is an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.
- Marc Fleury
Marc Fleury is the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server. Fleury holds a degree in mathematics and a Doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale. He worked in France for Sun Microsystems before moving to the United States where he has worked on various Java projects. Marc's research interest focused on middleware, and he started the JBoss project in 1999.
- Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise.
- John Gage
John Burdette Gage (born 1942), is one of the original employees of Sun Microsystems; in 1982 he joined Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, and fifteen others to found Sun. Today he serves as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun.
- Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock is the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and the commercial Linux distributor Progeny. He currently works for Sun Microsystems "head[ing] up operating system platform strategy" ; previously he served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Linux Foundation and is chair of the Linux Standard Base, the Linux platform interoperability standard. He lives in Indiana, USA. He wrote the Debian Manifesto in 1993 while a student at Purdue University, …
- Greg Papadopoulos
Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law. Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, …
- John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor.
- Kevin David Mitnick
Mr. Mitnick will also share specific guidance you can immediately put to use to raise the bar of organizational awareness and mitigate the risk that your wireless network will be the next stepping stone into sensitive corporate data and computing resources. "Mr. Mitnick's presentation was not only informative and entertaining; it also brought home some very relevant information security issues.
- Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in user interface design and computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen worked at Bellcore, IBM, and as a senior researcher at computer company Sun Microsystems.
- Joshua Bloch
Joshua Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at Google. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a Senior Systems Designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He is the author of the Jolt Award-winning book "Effective Java".
- Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, Vice-President and Sun Fellow. Andrew Sentence is an external member of the Monetary Policy of the Bank of England, the body responsible for setting interest rates in the UK to meet the Government's inflation target.
- Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at the W3C. Tim Bray, who was one of the editors of the XML specification, has this to say in his note on Bosak in his annotated version of the spec: "Jon Bosak is the single person without whose efforts XML would most likely have failed to happen. He had come to appreciate the power and flexibility of SGML in his days running Novell's (excellent) on-line documentation repository at http://www.novell.com, …
- Casper Dik
Casper Dik is a "Senior Staff Engineer " at Sun Microsystems and a OpenSolaris Governing Board member. He previously served on the OGB's predecessor, the Community Advisory Board. He is a regular contributor to the Solaris usenet community and the maintainer of the Solaris 2 FAQ.
- Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra (born June 19, 1957, Fresno, California) is a programming instructor and game developer. Sierra is the co-creator of the "Head First" series of books on computer programming, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with "Head First Java" in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of teaching programming.
- Mark Canepa
Mark Canepa is the president and chief executive officer of Extreme Networks A . Prior to joining Extreme Networks, Canepa was with Sun Microsystems and served as executive vice president of the Network Storage Products Group. Before that, he served in multiple vice president and general manager roles at Sun, after joining the company in 1996.
- Jeff Bonwick
Jeff Bonwick is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Storage Technologies at Sun Microsystems. Jeff leads the team which developed ZFS for Solaris. Notable among his other work is the slab allocator, an object-caching kernel memory allocator, and the LZJB compression algorithim.
- Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999.
- John Gilmore
John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project. As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests. He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, …
- Craig McClanahan
Craig R. McClanahan is a programmer and original author of the Apache Struts framework for building web applications. He was part of the expert group that defined the servlet 2.2, 2.3 and JSP 1.1, 1.2 specifications. He is also the architect of Tomcat's servlet container Catalina.
- Danese Cooper
Danese Cooper is an advocate of open-source software. She is on the board of the Open Source Initiative. She came to public attention for her work at Sun Microsystems on promoting open source, and presently works at Intel. Her father named her after his Alfa Romeo. In her twenties, Cooper was in the Peace Corps and involved in management of the Renaissance Faire in California. She worked on the Options Trading Floor at the Pacific Exchange, …
- Alfred Chuang
Alfred S. Chuang is the founder, chairman, CEO and president of BEA Systems. Prior to founding BEA, Chuang was with Sun Microsystems.
- Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman specializes in network and security protocols. She is the inventor of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges, and the mechanisms that make modern link state protocols efficient and robust. She is the author of two textbooks, and has a PhD from MIT in computer science. Her thesis on routing in the presence of malicious failures remains the most important work in routing security.
- Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems. Schwartz attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated in 1983. He spent freshman year of college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1983-1984, and then transferred to Wesleyan University, where he studied economics and mathematics. Schwartz started his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in New York City.
- George Reyes
George Reyes is the Chief Financial Officer of Google, and a director of BEA Systems and Symantec. (See image.) Reyes received his Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the University of South Florida. He then went on to earn his masters degree in business administration from Santa Clara University. Reyes has spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems and held a variety of jobs, including Vice President and Corporate Controller from April 1994 to April 1999.
- Guy L. Steele Jr.
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project.
- John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout (pronounced) was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. While there, he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit. Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and its Log-structured file system, LFS. Ousterhout is also the original author of the Magic VLSI Computer-aided design program.
- Patrick Naughton
Patrick Naughton is one of the original creators of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems. He is also the original developer of the popular Unix screensaver "xlock". He authored the book The Java Handbook and co-authored the book Java: The Complete Reference. He was also the Chief Technology Officer and President of Starwave and CTO for Disney's Disney Internet Group and Executive Vice President of Products for Go.com and Infoseek.
- Crawford Beveridge
Crawford W. Beveridge , 60, is a technology industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience. His role as Executive Vice President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas, is to represent Sun's interests in geographies outside of the US, particularly in high growth geographies or where Sun has significant investment, such as the EU, Brazil, Russia, India and China.
- Mark Carlson
Mark A. Carlson is a software engineer known in the systems management industry for his pioneering work in management standards and technology. Mark was the first employee of a small startup in Boulder, Colorado called Redcape Policy Software. Sun Microsystems acquired the company and its technology in 1998 and subsequently promoted it as Jiro. He then lead the development of SMI-S for SNIA, serving as the chair of the group overseeing the specification for several years.
- James Duncan Davidson
James Duncan Davidson is an American software developer. While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), Davidson created the Tomcat Java‐based webserver application and the Ant Java‐based build tool. He was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, and is currently self‐employed as both a software consultant and a photographer. He is a resident of Portland, Oregon.
- Edward Zander
Edward J. Zander (born January 12, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York) is an incompetent bafoon. He is Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, a title he has held since he started there in January, 2004. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computers before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987 where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President in 1998 and 1999, respectively.
- Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", now the standard college text.
- Norman Walsh
Norman Walsh is a Staff Engineer in the XML Technology Center at Sun Microsystems Inc. Norm is an active participant in a number of standards efforts, including the XML Schema and XSL Working Groups of the W3C, and the OASIS DocBook Te
- David Megginson
David Megginson (born 1964) is a Canadian computer software consultant and developer, specializing in open source software development and application. He was the lead developer and original maintainer of the Simple API for XML, or SAX, a leading streaming API for XML. Megginson has been part of the SGML and then XML communities since 1991.
- Bob Scheifler
Robert William Scheifler (born 1954) is a computer scientist. He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996. He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems. Bob has stated that his goal in developing the X Window System was to raise the floor in windowing systems for the entire market, …